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Chinese calendar, 27 November 2014
27 November 2014 is lunar month 10, day 6, 2014, the Wood Horse year. The day pillar is Yang Water Tiger. 17 named Yi activities; 9 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Thursday
November 2014
Lunar date
10th Month · 6th Day
二〇一四年十月初六
Year of the
Wood generates Fire in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Horse’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 6 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2014-11-27
The daily almanac & observances
壬寅 Yang Water Tiger
The stem gives Water; the branch gives Tiger.
Read this stem against your Day Master →Huang Dao and Hei Dao name the day-god cycle. For a particular plan, read its Yi and Ji activities below.
宜 Traditionally suitable
- Travel出行
- Receive funds纳财
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Install an incense altar安香
- Set up a loom's warp经络
- Dispatch goods or funds出货财
- Plaster or decorate walls修饰垣墙
- Level or repair roads平治道涂
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Build a temple造庙
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Build or install a stove作灶
- Make structural beams作梁
- Fell timber伐木
- Burial安葬
- Hold funeral rites行丧
- Repair a grave修坟
- Visit the sick探病
Month 10 · 30 days
22 November 2014–21 December 2014. 24 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Winter Solstice
22 December 2014 · In parts of northern China people eat dumplings, while Shanghai and some southern communities favour tangyuan; other foods and rites vary locally.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
November 2014 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar leap 9/15
Last quarter
Lunar leap 9/22
New moon
Lunar 10/1
First quarter
Lunar 10/8
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
The surrounding month
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Calendar terms explained
This day in the traditional cycles
Each result below names this date’s position and explains what the term means.
- Day pillar 日柱
- Yang Water Tiger · 壬寅— this date’s position in the repeating 60-day stem–branch cycle.Hidden stems are stems conventionally contained in the day pillar’s earthly branch. Primary is the main layer; middle and residual are secondary layers.
- Yang Wood · Jiǎ 甲 (primary)
- Yang Fire · Bǐng 丙 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Wood Pig · 乙亥— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Wood Horse · 甲午— Wood generates Fire; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Gold-leaf Metal · 金箔金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Tiger · 虎— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Monkey · 丙申— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Horn · 角— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Flood dragon creature (蛟) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Balance · 平— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: South (正南)
- Blessing 福神: Southeast (东南)
- Wealth 财神: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against drawing water, saying trouble may be hard to guard against.壬不泱水更难提防The verse cautions against ritual offerings, saying spirits may not receive them.寅不祭祀神鬼不尝Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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